Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell today proposed something called the P-E-R-F-O-R-M initiative, an acronym for Plan to Effectively Reorganize the Functions, Operations, Responsibilities and Mission of state agencies.
The goal is to in the coming months have a 24-person committee develop a package of reforms that will allow the next Governor and General Assembly elected in November to streamline state government upon taking office in January.
But it says something about the name when the Governor’s budget staff – who admittedly have their heads crammed with far, far more important data – were initially unable to recall what each letter in P-E-R-F-O-R-M stands for when asked by this reporter.
I think before the P-E-R-F-O-R-M group gets to work streamlining government, members need to streamline their name.
Here’s a piece about P-E-R-F-O-R-M I wrote for today’s papers.
Let’s start by getting rid of most of the Deputy Commissioners and Department spokes persons. This will force the Commissioners to know what’s going on in the Departments they are in charge of.
The practice of legislator’s boosting their pensions by taking a job in the executive branch for a few years needs to be stopped.
If Gov. Rell is serious about reducing State Government, when is her press conference announcing she will lead by example by not nominating any new judges.
Anyone else have any ideas?
Comment by Jim Ricci — February 4th, 2010 @ 5:45 pm